Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-14
M1srellanegns.
Beautiful Creole Women.
COOP FEATURES. HANDSOME EYES AND
BEAUTIFUL FIGURES THEIR HERITAGE.

The aristocratic Creole lady is often a
model for the imitation of her sex. She is
an obedient and respectful daughter. a
faithful wife and devoted mother. She
is soft of speech, and has a grace of man.
ner which gives a charm to ali she does.
Well-educated and accomplished, with
keen wit, she makes brilliant figure in
society, but is, nevertheless. an excellent
manager Of her household, ard gives a
most careful supervision 10 every detail
that will enhance the comfort OF her lord.
She looks diligently after the physical and
intellectual welfare of her children; es-
peciallv are her daughters trained under
her own ewes in all that goes TO make
woman lovely in mind and person. Their
la,ks for school are conned bv her side.
their music lessons are practiced within
her hearing that she may detect the least
false note She shares in all their amuse-
ments; she is their companion, their con-
tidant, heir friend. They come to her
will all their little hopes and fears. sure
of her sympathy. When her daughter is
grown, the Creole matron blooms again
into rich second youth; her own girl
hood is renewed in that OF her Child they
are scarcely mother and daughter any
longer, but a pair OF loving sisters. The
Young girl is educated in a convent, and
leads secluded existence until she Is
launched into society, and then in the JOY
Gus life that bursts upon her she is always
surrounded by the same watchful care
that guarded her childhood. Young girls
are not allowed to 90 into society without
being accompanied by their mothers or
some other married lady as champeron-
one of the manv Creole customs which has
been generally adopted by the American
residents Of New Orleans.
These young girls are often wonderfully
beautiful. Good features, handsome eyes
and graceful figures combine to make
hem very attractive, their beauty being
not nfrequently Oriental in type, though
the vivacity of their manners marks them
as essentially French in character. Many
Creole women are very accomplished.
They have skill in music and painting
that IS often artistic. In the literary clubs
which society women have inaugurated OF
late Years in New Orleans, the American
aides have been astonished to find the
Creole ladies quite as well posted as them
-elves in English literature. while possess
ing much greater knowledge OF the
literature of other countries. But an ac-
rompishment still more attractive to the
mpecunious young man seeking matrl-
monj is the exquisite taste with which
these maidens far will fashion tfeir own
GOWNS and bonnets when circumstances
require them to make these things at
home the Creole women have in
itritated then French taste for dress, and
~ a greater d gree than Other Americans
hey regard the fiat of Paris as the
supreme authority in all matters concern
.ng he toilet Also, the Creole women
Of all ages and of all classes are devout.
Neither social engagements, nor weather,
nor other obstacles are allowed to inter-
fere with the d 8 ge of their religion,
duties. Are they not somewhat supersti
ilous? Some ct them little SO, perhaps,
n remembrance OF voudou stories told
tatm in their infancy by old negro nurses
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